My mother has a habit of sending very LARGE holiday packages which are a mixture of gifts for the kids and odd things she picks up (for example, I have a large collection of note pads with cat show logos on them). I made the mistake of telling her to go ahead and send along any electronics she happens to pick up.
Thus, in thumbnail size for your bandwidth and sanity-roll protection: the Notbook.
And yes, if you read closely, you can see that the tech writers didn’t know whether this notbook was seven feet or seven inches in size. (I haven’t measured it, but it’s definitely not seven feet across.) You can also see that there’s no logo or manufacturer’s imprint on the manual, which continues in even more disturbing fashion on the back cover:
Clearly even the least tech-savvy have figured out by now that this is some kind of strange intellectual-property-infringing variety of machine, but shouldn’t there be a logo of some sort on the notbook? Even a fake one like “Bindows”?
All right, this whole generic concept isn’t necessarily a bad thing, given that the cool new Google Cr-48 is generic and blank and THAT doesn’t radiate an aura of weirdness and menace. That is because Google does not produce a tiny 7″ laptop with documentation clearly written by non-native English speakers that runs what purports to be….Windows CE.
The “Windows CE” desktop is also extremely strange. The right half of the screen has a permanent widget bar. You can’t see it here, but there are things missing from the Startup menu….like a command to shut the machine down.
“So, Mom, where the heck did you get this thing?”
“Oh, I don’t know….I picked it up at a seminar somewhere for free, I don’t remember.”
Right. Next thing you know the Yellow Sign will pop up as a screen saver.
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